Has anyone heard of a brace under hood of 1le/iroc ect vehicles that goes from the right hood strut to the firewall?? its a little round rod.. seems to be only on the pass. side...

 

The ones I've seen were from the fenders to the firewall, seen it on other cars as well, Cadillac's etc

 

It's on every Camaro. I don't know about Firebirds, though.

 

its called strut tower brace or wonderbar
Martin

 

Not the wonderbar. It's the "Fender to Upper Cowl Brace".

 

"Every" camaro?

I've seen ALOT of engine bays on ALOT of camaro's... I hardly ever see those, although I have seen them more than a few times.

 

Every single one according to the P.I.M.

 

Oops, I lied. I was looking at the wrong part. They're on 82-86 Z28s and 87 FE2 and F41 cars, then on every car 88-90. In 91-92 they seem to have gone to a sheet metal brace.

 

Are you kidding. Those two things aren't the same at all, and neither are the part this guys talking about. Get your facts straight or don't post- you clearly have no clue.

Strut Tower Brace connects the strut towers (passenger and driver).
Wonderbar is a steering box brace, it bolts up with the front sway bar.

 

Talked about here...

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/hist...light=firewall

 

What I was talking about was: eBay Motors: NOS 82-92 Trans Am Camaro RARE GM performance brace 1LE (item 330008809747 end time Aug-13-06 19:15:00 PDT)

This thing seems kinda silly...

 

Yup, that's it.

 

If you read that other post it isnt on every car. I didnt have one on my 88 but I had the sheet metal brace

 

I'm just talking about what the book says.

 

Yup, those are the ones I was refering to. Seen one Camaro in the junkyard with it, wife had '80's Cadillac that had it. No way it would be worth 24 bucks though, get some tubing, crimp it at the ends, drill holes and there you go.

 

Thats pretty much what I was thinking...After shipping, thats one expensive piece of tubing..!!! That guy may be a little....

 

It is a solid piece of steel if it makes any difference, may be a little difficult to flatten the ends of a piece of steel that large